While businesses have systematically and thoroughly abused and mutilated our earth, several companies have begun to implant and implement environment-conscious ideologies in their organisations. From a global perspective, the highest impact is being achieved by an Indian-American according to Forbes. Recently named as the greenest billionaire in the world, Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been pouring millions of dollars into innovative companies that are into sustainable building materials, solar power and advanced bio-fuels. Meanwhile, organic clothes that spare the earth the scourge of pesticides and chemicals are slowly gaining ground in the Indian market. While several designers have taken out eco-friendly lines, two major apparel brands have recently decided to tread the green mile too. These new lines from Van Heusen and Arrow present 100 per cent organic clothes made out of cotton, linen and have used natural dyes. Vandana Shiva, however, stresses on tying such projects with community-based initiatives to ensure that such ventures sustain in the long haul. Further, in dyeing a regular fashionable outfit, roughly 8000 chemicals are used, besides using heavy metals, creating toxic waste and consuming huge quantities of precious water.
Therefore natural dyes are an essential step for clothing companies. Herbal dyeing, which not only uses natural plants and minerals but also retains the medicinal properties of the herbs, is being seen as the next big trend by many. Says Arun Baid of Aura Herbal Textiles, “We will not speculate that the whole world will change and will go for herbal dyeing, but since the dedication to environment, global warming, carbon points are serious issues, in the near future anybody and everybody will have to be sustainable to survive.”
Going green is becoming so fashionable that at The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) green has replaced the usual red colour of the carpet at the entry. Where Amitabh Bachchan has for long been encouraging eco-friendly behaviour, the latest Bollywood celebrity to join the green bandwagon is Abhay Deol, who has signed up to become the official Brand Ambassador of The Climate Project – India, and for a start has decided to use two separate garbage bins – one for dry waste, and the other for wet waste. The project is aiming to present more concrete solutions through their Teachers Training Programme, where they plan on training teachers in every government and privately-owned school in Delhi about climate change, in time to help the capital get all squeaky and shiny for the Commonwealth Games 2010.
While there is a lot afoot to help our earth regain its lost vitality, each one of us needs to treat our planet with respect and love, and behave as a member of one big family. The Dongria Kondh tribe, the businessmen who own the factories, to the school children who planted saplings this Earth Day, are all an intrinsic and organic part of the same family. “We are the last generation that can make a difference. Our generation has a challenge to not only act in our own capacities to reduce our carbon footprints, but in addition we should also get our politicians to take the big decisions that are needed now,” says Vinuta Gopal. “We need to now think of the rights of mother earth, and how that defines our rights,” stresses Vandana Shiva, and leaves us with a thought that will hopefully resound in our readers’ minds long after, “We are an earth family, and this earth family is a child of mother earth, and her rights come first.”
Therefore natural dyes are an essential step for clothing companies. Herbal dyeing, which not only uses natural plants and minerals but also retains the medicinal properties of the herbs, is being seen as the next big trend by many. Says Arun Baid of Aura Herbal Textiles, “We will not speculate that the whole world will change and will go for herbal dyeing, but since the dedication to environment, global warming, carbon points are serious issues, in the near future anybody and everybody will have to be sustainable to survive.”
Going green is becoming so fashionable that at The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) green has replaced the usual red colour of the carpet at the entry. Where Amitabh Bachchan has for long been encouraging eco-friendly behaviour, the latest Bollywood celebrity to join the green bandwagon is Abhay Deol, who has signed up to become the official Brand Ambassador of The Climate Project – India, and for a start has decided to use two separate garbage bins – one for dry waste, and the other for wet waste. The project is aiming to present more concrete solutions through their Teachers Training Programme, where they plan on training teachers in every government and privately-owned school in Delhi about climate change, in time to help the capital get all squeaky and shiny for the Commonwealth Games 2010.
While there is a lot afoot to help our earth regain its lost vitality, each one of us needs to treat our planet with respect and love, and behave as a member of one big family. The Dongria Kondh tribe, the businessmen who own the factories, to the school children who planted saplings this Earth Day, are all an intrinsic and organic part of the same family. “We are the last generation that can make a difference. Our generation has a challenge to not only act in our own capacities to reduce our carbon footprints, but in addition we should also get our politicians to take the big decisions that are needed now,” says Vinuta Gopal. “We need to now think of the rights of mother earth, and how that defines our rights,” stresses Vandana Shiva, and leaves us with a thought that will hopefully resound in our readers’ minds long after, “We are an earth family, and this earth family is a child of mother earth, and her rights come first.”
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friend? Confused?! Certainly the fight has always been on (and will continue forever) when it comes to choose between the two. However, there are some that seems to have come upon a decision – of course that’s not girls – and have finally placed their bet on one! Well, those weary souls happen to be none other than stock market investors, to be precise the retail investors.
the whole concept of hijab, without knowing its true meaning. I was born in a modern Muslim family, which fasted in the month of Ramadan and prayed three times a day instead of five. Being brought up in this environment and going to a Catholic school and college, my understanding of Islam and its beliefs was very poor. I was practicing more of a Catholic way of life rather than Islamic.
ose car owners who want to look hip and different but neither do they have the time nor the inclination to read auto journals (to try and understand arcane terms like torsion bar) or to go on the net and do their research. So, getting right down to business, the first and the easiest way to make your car (and yourself) look attention worthy is to get a killer set of alloys. These wheels are made using an aluminum alloy and are shinier, lighter and carry far more variety than your regular steel rims. Available at almost all car garages from Rs.10,000 onwards (for a set of 5) going up to Rs.50,000, this extra bling on your car is sure to satisfy your inner gangsta. Just remember not to go overboard with the width of the alloy wheel, for example if you choose an alloy wheel more than an inch wider than your stock tyre, it will affect your fuel economy adversely while at the same time making your steering hard. Ok, now that you have those cool looking rims it’s time to do something about those stodgy halogen headlamps… there’s nothing wrong with them, expect of course that every car has them! So switch to Xenon headlamps, the latest and coolest accessory for your car which won’t blow a hole in your pocket. What’s more, they emit a very bright and eerie bluish toned light which, while making you stand out, also freaks people out (especially if you come roaring behind them, switch to high beam and watch as they squirm while their car interior glows with a unsettling bluish tinge…very cool effect!). After these two modifications just stick some inexpensive Taiwanese LED lights to the underside of your car, programmed to emit various colours at regular intervals (red, blue, yellow…you name it) and voila your car is sure to turn some heads and offend some other people (isn’t that the whole idea).
automotive industry is probably experiencing the worst times, Honda has once again proved its unbeatable market understanding. The company has presence in almost all major markets with strategically located manufacturing bases. The company’s revenues for the year 2007 stood at a mind-numbing $95 billion and that too when the company is perhaps the lowest outsourcer in the entire industry. Honda is probably one of the few carmakers which manufactures its own engines (the most capital intensive component in the finished products category). What’s best, the company has always maintained its profit-earning colours. During the quarter-ended June 30, 2008, the company earned a staggering $2.1 billion from operating profits alone! Expressing the need for Honda to go forward, Takeo Fukui, Global CEO, Honda Motor Company asserts, “A new three-year mid-term plan began in April of this year. The basic idea for this plan is to establish a corporate structure necessary to sustain our strengths and that will enable us to grow globally in the future.” The company intends to restructure its operations for better performance in the long term. In order to increase efficiency and quality, Honda recently transferred production to a new plant in Kumamoto from its Hamamatsu base.
intellectual talent and institutes of higher technical education, one being the Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs). The story reads great so far, but ‘behind the scenes’ the IITs are facing an acute ‘shortage of faculty’ problem today, a situation which is only getting worse by the day!
concluded (in their paper titled, ‘The BRICs and Global Markets: Car, Crude and Capital’) that India’s market growth will be rapid with the potential for a threefold increase in car ownership over the next 10 years, might once again have to redo their work and radically change their conclusion. Well, the reason for the reconsideration being the rising raw material cost, slowing credit & signs of economic slowdown. All of these have cast a dark spell on the sector which now seems to be bearing the brunt of the economic slowdown, as well as interest rates that are rising by the day.
slowdown on M&M? VN: If there is a slowdown, naturally we will also be affected by it. However I think that the slowdown is a seasonal factor and sales will pick up eventually. Then there is the monsoon and rains, a situation where the consumer is not very keen in making new purchases.
currencies cast a fatal attack on the hegemony of dollar. The economic fundamentals of the emerging markets (EMs) were robust enough to take on the challenges and what the world witnessed was a rally of the currencies of these nations. This phenomenon has come a full circle; the five year rally is coming to an end. Thanks to the ‘monster’ termed inflation; the respective central governments are struggling to combat it. As a matter of fact, inflation in 19 out of the 26 emerging markets now exceeds its tolerance zone. The global economic slowdown is bound to impact economies that are less well positioned or underpinned by fundamentals. “Is it the beginning of currency crises in the emerging economies?” It is a pertinent question that needs to be debated. Keeping aside the self-fulfilling prophecies, the looming currency crisis can nevertheless be prevented by subtle policy changes.